Greetings, David Karr! >> > I wish I could get my own messages on this list, so I could add more >> > information to my first note. >> >> Just reply to your own initial message. Or better yet, subscribe. >>
> I am subscribed. I can't reply to my own initial message because I never > receive my own postings, I only receive notes sent by other people. You WROTE it. No need to receive to reply to it. >> > Running the installer again made no difference. It still thinks my HOME >> is >> > "/". >> >> Do you have %HOME% variable set in your user environment? >> Do you have %HOMEDRIVE%/%HOMEPATH% variables defined to something >> unsettling? >> > I checked "Environment Variables" in control panel, and I'm not setting > anything beginning with "HOME" in either user or system variables. wat??? Win+R -> "cmd" In the console, type "set HOME" and hit <Enter>. Then Win+R -> "bash" (specify full path if necessary) Type "set | grep -iE '^HOME'" and hit <Enter> again. Check if both envs correspond to eachother. >> > I don't know what environment variables are set or inspected by cygwin. >> I >> > see that the "USERNAME" variable seems to have my expected value. >> >> > I tried running "mkpasswd -d" and grepping for my userid, and it was >> there >> > (along with many others). >> >> > I can "fix" the environment in the mintty shell by setting HOME to >> > "/home/<myuid>" and then sourcing my .bashrc and .bash_profile. That >> > doesn't help my Emacs desktop shortcut, which uses "run2". >> >> > I noticed that when I do an "ls -lt" in my homedir, instead of the owner >> > and group of files being my simple uid, it's something like >> > "<MYDOMAIN>+User(1944941)" and "2993517" (group and user, respectively, I >> > believe). >> >> Please remove any /etc/{group,passwd} files and try again. >> > I have neither of those files. That's what I'm saying. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, August 16, 2019 23:24:39 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple